Ferizaj in Albanian, or Uroševac in Serbian (Serbian Cyrillic: Урошевац) is a city and municipality in southern Kosovo, located approximately 38 kilometers (24 mi) south of the capital Pristina. Founded and named after the local hotelier Feriz Shasivari in the 19th century, the city was renamed Uroševac when Serbia annexed it in 1913. Ferizaj is the third most populous city in Kosovo, after Pristina and Prizren, and is the administrative center of the homonymous district. The central city postal codes include 70000, 70010, 70030 and 70040.

The municipality covers an area of 345 km² (133 sq mi) for the most part on an agricultural plain. It includes the city of Ferizaj itself as well as forty-five villages, with an estimated total population of 108,610.

The town, was named Ferızovık when it was part of the Ottoman Empire, was little more than a village until 1873, when the Belgrade-Thessaloniki railway was opened, passing through the town. The name derives from a pre-1873 hotel owned by a local named Feriz Shasivari.

When the settlement fell to Serbia during the First Balkan War, the local Albanian population offered determined resistance. According to certain reports, fighting lasted for three days. The Serbian commander then ordered the population to go home and to surrender. When the survivors returned, 300–400 men were executed and according to the Catholic Archbishop of Skopje, Lazër Mjeda, only three Muslim Albanians over the age of fifteen were left alive. The destruction of Albanian-populated villages around Ferizovik followed. Before the Treaty of London in 1913 made Ferizovik a part of the Kingdom of Serbia, the name was changed to Uroševac, after Stefan Uroš V of Serbia.

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